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Winter Storm Rattling Busy US Travel Season With Cold and Snow
A massive winter storm is winding across the central US, threatening to disrupt air traffic during the busy holiday season, rake Chicago with a blizzard → Read More
Tropical Storm Lisa on Track to Strike Belize as 12th Atlantic Storm of 2022
Tropical Storm Lisa has spun up in the Caribbean Sea south of Jamaica, on track to strike Belize late Wednesday as the 12th storm of this year's Atlantic → Read More
Hurricane Ian Spurs Evacuations as Airports, Schools Shut
Hurricane Ian, projected to be one of the costliest storms in US history, prompted mass evacuations, school shutdowns and thousands of flight → Read More
Hurricane Fiona Hits Nova Scotia as One of Region’s Strongest Storms
Fiona, the most powerful storm of this year's Atlantic hurricane season, roared ashore in eastern Nova Scotia early Saturday as one of the strongest → Read More
Hurricane Fiona on Track to Rake Bermuda Before Heading to Atlantic Canada
Hurricane Fiona is on track to rake Bermuda with damaging winds before driving north toward Atlantic Canada, bringing threats of widespread damage and → Read More
Fiona Becomes Strongest 2022 Atlantic Hurricane, Threatening Bahamas, Bermuda
Hurricane Fiona has intensified to become this year's strongest Atlantic storm as it rakes the Bahamas on its way to threaten Bermuda and eastern Canada → Read More
Hurricane Fiona Moves North With Up to $4B Economic Damages Estimated Already
Hurricane Fiona strengthened as it moved away from Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic where it knocked out power and spawned flash floods and → Read More
Hurricane Alley Hasn’t Been This Quiet in a Quarter Century
The Atlantic crucible of hurricanes hasn't had a storm all month and if the calm holds it will stand as the quietest August in 25 years. The expanse of → Read More
Why Are the World’s Rivers, Canals and Reservoirs Turning to Dust?
Rivers across the globe are disappearing. From the U.S. to Italy to China, waters have receded, leaving nothing but barren banks of silt and oozing, → Read More
Atlantic Hurricane Season May Get Boost From Lingering La Nina
La Nina will probably stick around for at least several more months, potentially leading to more hurricanes and tropical storms across the Atlantic during → Read More
Tropical Storm Bonnie Forms Near Nicaragua in Caribbean
Tropical Storm Bonnie formed in the Caribbean east of Nicaragua, a dangerous system that threatens a potential humanitarian crisis but isn't a major → Read More
Season’s 1st Eastern Pacific Hurricane Pummels Mexico With Strong Winds, Heavy Rain
Hurricane Agatha made landfall in Mexico's Oaxaca state Monday afternoon in what's expected to be the strongest May storm to hit the eastern Pacific on → Read More
How Climate Change Is Fueling More Intense Global Wildfires
Already, 2022 is taking its place in a pantheon of years that have seen the nature of fire change — and all parts of the world fall under threat. It's → Read More
Solar Storm to Hit Earth, Prompting Monitoring by Airlines, Electric Grid Operators
A solar storm will sweep across the Earth Wednesday night, raising prospects of dazzling Northern Lights visible as far south as Chicago while prompting → Read More
UK Braces for ‘Storm Eunice’ and Hurricane-Strength Gusts on Friday
Britain's Met Office issued a rare red weather warning for parts of the UK, saying hurricane-strength gusts of 90 miles (145 kilometers) an hour are set → Read More
More Tornadoes in Midwest, Great Plains Leave One Dead and 500,000 in the Dark
Dec 16, 2021 — A powerful storm that spawned tornadoes across the Midwest and Great Plains killed at least one person, ripped trees from the ground and → Read More
Month-Long Halt in Hurricanes Thanks to Dry Air and Atmospheric Lull
This year's hurricane season started out as one of the most prolific in the modern era. Then suddenly, in October, the storms stopped. As of Friday, the → Read More
Pounding Rain Raises Flash Flood Threat in New York, New England
The powerful storm battering the U.S. Northeast will inundate New York City with lashing rain and possible flash floods through Tuesday night, then → Read More
La Nina Arrives, Threatening More Droughts, Storms and Supply Disruptions
A weather-roiling La Nina appears to have emerged across the equatorial Pacific, setting the stage for worsening droughts in California and South America, → Read More
U.S. Endures 18 Major Weather and Climate Disasters in 2021
The U.S. has endured 18 major weather and climate disasters so far this year that killed a combined 538 people and inflicted more than $100 billion in → Read More